{"id":2388,"date":"2019-06-18T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2019-11-29T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T04:39:46","slug":"2388","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/2388","title":{"rendered":"kia walaia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve reached page 179 of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/eccentricparabola.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/searching-for-real-robinson-crusoes.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In Search of Robinson Crusoe<\/a><\/em> and Tim Severin finally brings tears to my eyes with his description of Marco\u2019s farewell (<em>kia walaia,<\/em> which translates from Miskiti as \u201cto smell, to understand\u201d). An adequate substitute for O\u2019Brian this summer, I discovered this writer and true-life adventurer while cutting up an old <em>Outside<\/em> magazine. When I finish this, I must find his book on the North Atlantic voyage of Saint Brendan, a feat which Severin dangerously re-enacted with an authentic skin-covered boat.<br \/>\n\u2022 When I thought, \u201cWhat is the purpose of all this?\u201d as I was taking care of a completely disoriented and feeble Mombo, the only possible answer is what John Paul II called \u201cthe law of the gift\u201d \u2014 the giving of oneself as the path to true happiness. It aligns with the single greatest of commandments, to love. But it also requires the conscious awareness, consent, and acceptance of the giver, or the gift becomes something else, and can be perverted so readily into resentment, or the sense of injustice. And so, it is not just the doing. It must be the mindfulness behind it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve reached page 179 of In Search of Robinson Crusoe and Tim Severin finally brings tears to my eyes with his description of Marco\u2019s farewell (kia walaia, which translates from Miskiti as \u201cto smell, to understand\u201d). An adequate substitute for O\u2019Brian this summer, I discovered this writer and true-life adventurer while cutting up an old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,37,44,73,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}